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Ma-a: Davao City’s Most Disaster-Prone Area

Fast-developing Maa has been identified as among the most vulnerable areas to natural disasters, according to the Regional Disaster Coordinating Council. In a recent disclosure to media, the RDCC said that based on information culled from the Mines and Geosciences Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Maa could be courting floods, landslides, ...

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Sinkhole in Davao City?

Sinkhole in Davao City? Sun Star Davao Editorial, June 3, 2010 It looks like a gateway to hell. A 200-foot-deep sinkhole in Guatemala City suddenly opened up in the aftermath of a storm and swallowed a three-story building into the bowels of the earth. The sinkhole, a nearly perfect circular shaft wider than a street ...

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The Sad Experience of Rizal Province

“High-end subdivisions were built along mountains with slopes of more than what Presidential Decree 705 or the Revised Forestry Code allows. The top of mountains in the towns of San Mateo, Rodriguez, Angono, Cainta and Marikina had been flattened and denuded to give way to these developments. Thus, when Ondoy hit the country, low-lying areas ...

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